Belasco, David, 1853-1931; Theater -- United States
_Hon. John Rutherford_ Herbert Kelcey.
_Robert Grey_ Henry Miller.
_Matthew Culver_ Nelson Wheatcroft.
_Silas Truman_ Charles Walcot.
_Major Homer_ William J. LeMoyne.
_Jack Dexter_ Charles S. Dickson.
_Helen Truman_, _Mrs. Rutherford_ Georgia Cayvan.
_Lucile Ferrant_ Grace Henderson.
_Mrs. Bellamy Ives_ Mrs. Charles Walcot.
_Mrs. Amory_ Mrs. Thomas Whiffen.
_Agnes_ Vida Croly.
_Mr. Randolph_ W. Clark Bellows.
_Kitty Ives_ Louise Dillon.
“The Wife” was so beautifully set, so perfectly directed, and so well
acted that, though at first the dead weight of the play oppressed its
representation, the public press, even at the first, inclined to accord
it an importance which it did not deserve. Georgia Cayvan’s
impersonation of the wife revealed anew the deep feeling and the
graceful art that had won her recognition as a favorite actress. Grace
Henderson (she was the wife of David Henderson, critical writer and
producer of musical extravaganza), who acted the mischief making, jilted
woman, _Lucile_, played with discretion and sincerity,--but it was
difficult for the spectator to believe that a woman with a face so
beautiful and a voice so delicious would ever have been jilted by any
man not blind and deaf. Henry Miller was loud and extravagant as _Grey_;
Herbert Kelcey was dignified, manly, and fine in feeling and elegant in
manner and movement as _Rutherford_, and LeMoyne was delightfully
humorous as _Major Homer_.
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